According to a Blockspace report, federal agents on Monday stormed the Lonestar Dream Bitcoin Mining site in Pete, Texas, and headed straight to an ASIC repair center run by Bitmain-related ADW Tech.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation unfolded at sunrise and focused on contractors who continue to run anti-minor rigs on the 30 MW site sold by Poolin recently.
Witnesses allegedly said the attack looked like a war scene. “Helicopters, snipers, armed men,” one source told Blockspace, “Describes an ice helicopter heading up before Black Tahoe cavalry arrived on the scene.
The agent added, “Who will do this, who will do it.” There were several institutions. The ICE, the FBI, Homeland Security Survey (HSI), the Texas Public Safety Agency (DPS), and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) all participated, according to people on the site.
Agents detain ADW Tech Staff and seize documents
Law enforcement removed 12 or 13 workers, about half of the repair shop staff, from the Pete facility after failing to display proper credentials. The same source said ICE targeted Chinese citizens and took everyone with them on an expired visa.
This RAID did not affect other local operators such as Genesis Digital Assets, which operates the 195 MW Bitcoin mine on Pyote, but it was not the subject of this action.
ADW Tech is a Bitmain contractor and certified Antminer Repair Shop embedded in Lonestar Dream. The company’s presence highlights how West Texas has become a mining hub, drawing celebrities with cheap power and wide land. The recent sale of the site by Pullin still remains repaired by ADW technology, where federal scrutiny has landed.
This action comes as US Bitmain-linked repair centers face growing government attention. The attack connects with a longer story that involves the Trump administration’s handling of mining hardware imports.
At the end of 2024, CBP began sporadically holding and seizing shipments of ASIC miners at US ports, sometimes maintaining them for several months and charging holding fees without explaining the flag.
After Trump took office, several cargoes detained in 2025 were taken into custody and began being released in the second half of the first quarter and early second quarter.
Officials said they are looking for a restricted AI chip for ASIC Miners’ Control Boards, a semiconductor company that shares Bitmain CEO Micree Zhan.
The US Department of Commerce is actively investigating the possibility of Sofgo’s sanctions violations.
